GoDaddy has been in the news over the past twenty years for questionable business practices.
I prefer Dynadot (US company). I’ve also heard good things about Gandi (French company). You can also transfer (but not register) domains to Cloudflare.
I prefer Dynadot (US company). I’ve also heard good things about Gandi (French company). You can also transfer (but not register) domains to Cloudflare.
Some evidence, please.
But the GP's story is about identity verification; I don't see that as a particularly egregious "shenanigan".
Would maybe be defensible if they asked for actually verifiable information, like a dump of the cryptographically signed contents of your chipped passport (haha).